I know I should love Crowned. I love crazy chicks. I love sequins. I adore crazy chicks in sequins, hence my love of Dynasty from age 4. However, there's something about this that hasn't grabbed me yet. I don't know if it's the fact that crazy can only get you so far or the fact that pageants are an archaic, misogynistic ritual made to objectify women in the guise of a "scholarship contest." You don't make someone wear a bathing suit to get a scholarship.
Anyway, the crazy ramped up a little this week and I have a feeling we're headed for a big blowup complete with hair pulling and scratching. Now that's what a pageant is meant to be!
Oh, yes they did!
We begin this week shortly after last week's emotional desashing ceremony where the Anna Nicole twins were sent home. Ghetto Fatulous is filling the void in her soul with a hearty bowl of Meuslix while Christan lays in bed flipping through the newest issue of "Boobs Weekly." Ada and Christan make a deal to stay positive throughout the rest of the pageant, which Christan says will be easy since so many of her test results at the free clinic come back that way.
Tenia, AKA Babyfat, takes time to bash her mother for not taking the pageant serious so far but Ghetto Fatulous has a point since the show is on the CW. "Have you seen the intro credits for this show? It's ridiculous!" Ghetto Fatulous assures Tenia that she won't let her daughter down unless they are forced to do something athletic outside in pants.
Or if we have to sing. Or pose. Or not be total c**nts to poor people.
Linnea Navratalova comes in to tell the ladies that they get to spend the day outside, I can assume in the yard pumping iron and brushing each other's hair. Linnea instructs the ladies to wear close-toed shoes and pants leading me to believe there will be some kind of feces kicking contest or a camel toe off. Despite her debilitating knee injury, Mindy, AKA Snaggletooth is determined to make it to the final pageant even if she has to drag herself across the floor with her lips.
The "ladies" arrive at a Habitat for Humanity house and are handed over to a bear lover's dreamboat to help build a home for some poor, dirty, yokel of a family. The "ladies" are instructed to landscape the front entrance and build a cinder block wall. Immediately Firecrotch begins whining about how much sod she has to lay down, mostly because being in the sun that long will cause her to not only burn but burst into flames.
Jenileigh, AKA Unitard, Moya, Gina and Hollis all begin working on the cinder block fence and razor wire braiding that is to rest on top of it to keep the poor people in their home after it's built. Unitard states that she's done community service before and her heart is swollen ebullient by being able to give a poor family a place to live since she and her mother are currently homeless. OK we get it.
You better start working on a guest house, honey.
Ghetto Fatulous is schvitzing like a whore in Temple and complaining that she and the heat don't mesh well. Nor do she and Mexicans, Baptists, blonds, people with freckles, Applebees enthusiasts, sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods or weirdos. They all think she's a righteous bitch. Ghetto fatulous mentions that it's so hot that she needs to take her pants off, but the foreman warns her that they're not in the best neighborhood and her backside is likely to get graffiti if left exposed too long.
Hootie McBoob fumbles with the paintbrush at first, wondering why she's supposed to put on her make-up, before realizing she's supposed to paint a wall. While struggling to paint the wall she drops her brush, knocks off her hard hat and grows more and more frustrated with the entire experience. When the fence moves we see that Ghetto Fatulous ignored the foreman's advice and Hootie McBoob exhales in frustration due to wasting a good hour painting Angela's enormous butt.
Meanwhile Mona, Firecrotch, Snaggletooth and Bighead are working to lay the sod. That poor sod. Mona tells the camera that she was upset that she got stuck with Snaggletooth since she is "crippled" and crippled people add nothing to the world (except for the late, great Christopher Reeves. RIP).
BOOO gimps!
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Comments (6)
FB, I don't watch this show but I always enjoy reading your recaps. Loved the Ferris Bueller shout-out!!!
1 of 6 | Posted by wintersux | Posted on January 22, 2008 3:13 AM
I was so happy that Ghetto Fabulous and Babyfat were the ones that left! I was also thrilled that they showed their true hideous colors to the judges! lol! Those two are the most hateful things I have ever seen. Now if the redheads would be next to leave, I don't know if I could take the excitment! I have just never been more disgusted with anyone, those two teams are just hideous people.
2 of 6 | Posted by nwokpeach | Posted on January 22, 2008 4:52 PM
Thanks for the howling fozzie! You sooo rock, maybe I'll try and catch the pagent so I can doubly enjoy your recaps.
The wall moving and being Ghetto Fatulous was awesome!!!!
3 of 6 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on January 23, 2008 4:30 PM
fozzie you are completely hilarious! thank you for making a disgusting show truly rock
4 of 6 | Posted by nobigdealiguess | Posted on January 23, 2008 10:54 PM
ohmigod....sooo glad that Ghetto Fabulous and Babyfat are GONE!!!!
I am a fan of this kind of stuff...but I've been pushing myself through this show hoping that it would get better..I usually LOVE this kind of thing...but am I the only one completely annoyed by Miss USA 1987? I mean isn't this the chick that got in a catfight with Paris in a stairwell at a club in LA - over her babydaddy? This is who is dishing out advice on how to present yourself in public..wtf?
Carson or that other chick (who is she anyway??) should lean over and desash her. Best. Finale. Ever.
5 of 6 | Posted by realitee | Posted on January 24, 2008 8:37 PM
Fozziebare, you are so hilarious and on point! Everything I think of while watching the show gets put in the recap and is made 10 times funnier!
I too agree that Shanna bugs and is a Tyra Banks wannabe!! She tries to do the elimination ceremony like ANTM but this show sucks harder. The only reason I was sad to see Skin Deep go was b/c of the drama they provide. Guess I'll have to live off of Mona & Firecrotch ridicule, which I'm sure you'll do a fantastic job ;)
6 of 6 | Posted by steez | Posted on January 25, 2008 2:54 PM